📌 13 AI Startups raise $100M+

TODAY’S FUNDING RECAP 🗓️

• Loti raises a $16.2M Series A — Deepfake and impersonation detection

• Potato raises a $4.5M Seed — AI agents for science

• Virtue AI raises a $30M Seed + Series A — AI system security

• RLWRLD raises a $14.8M Seed — Robotic foundational model

• 9 more rounds caught by my funding tracker

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RAISED A $9M SEED

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• Focus on selling, evaluating, and closing rather than rote busy work

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TOP PICKS 📢

1/4

→ Loti

Amount: $16.2M 🎉

Round: Series A

Lead Investor: Khosla Ventures

Loti monitors, detects, and removes unauthorised uses of individuals’ faces and voices across the internet.

The platform analyses real photos, videos, and audio from its customers to search for potential deepfakes or other unauthorised content, such as impersonation accounts, and automatically removes unwanted content using an AI agent performing DMCA takedowns. They built their own proprietary facial and voice recognition models trained on verified client inputs to detect a person’s likeness. Beyond reactive takedowns, Loti helps talent agencies and celebrities enforce contract compliance on how a client’s likeness can be used.

2/4

→ Potato

Amount: $4.5M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Draper Associates

Potato builds autonomous AI agents that function as teammates for researchers.

These agents integrate with laboratory workflows to automate key aspects of scientific experimentation: conducting literature reviews, designing experimental protocols, operating software and hardware in labs, analyzing data, and iterating based on feedback. They are trained to reason across technical domains, handle complex experimental cycles, and independently drive discovery at a scale.

Why Ensemble VC invested in them

3/4

→ Virtue AI

Amount: $30M 🎉

Round: Seed + Series A

Lead Investor: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Walden Catalyst

Virtue AI offers a unified platform with three tools to secure enterprise AI systems.

The first is an algorithmic red-teaming platform that continuously tests AI models for vulnerabilities including hallucinations, prompt injections, privacy leaks, and jailbreaks. It automates security checks and alerts internal teams to risks before they materialize into breaches. The second component is a policy-aligned set of output guardrails, which prevent AI models from generating responses that violate organizational policies or government regulations. This applies to both general-purpose models and specific industry contexts. The third solution focuses on protecting autonomous agents with a guardrail framework.

4/4

→ RLWRLD

Amount: $14.8M 🎉

Round: Seed

Lead Investor: Hashed

RLWRLD is building a foundational AI model to enable machines to replicate human-level dexterity, reasoning, and agility.

Their system aims to teach robots to perform more nuanced, logic-based movements and handle complex manual tasks. The company’s model learns from human behaviour to automate previously manual workflows to support a wide spectrum of robots from industrial and collaborative robots to autonomous mobile systems and humanoids.

OTHER ROUNDS 🤏

ESSENTIAL INTRODUCTIONS

→ Doss raises a $18M Series A — ERP & data platform for humans and AI agents

→ Corvic AI raises a $12M Seed — Enterprise multimodal data infrastructure to build custom data applications

→ Redcar raises a $5.3M Seed — B2B sales agent to research, qualify, and craft outreach at scale

→ telli raises a $3.6M Pre-Seed — AI voice agents for B2C companies

→ Atomic raises a $3M Seed — AI to automate inventory planning

4 more rounds in the Funding Database →

UNANNOUNCED DEALS FROM ARFUR ROCK

→ Goodfire is raising a $50M Series A at a $250M post-money valuation led by Menlo Ventures & Anthropic (NEW)

→ Etched is raising a $85M Round at a $1.5B post-money valuation

→ Cursor is raising a $625M Round at a $9.6B post-money valuation led by Thrive Capital & a16z, $200M ARR

→ OpenArt is raising a Series A, $12M ARR

→ Interview Coder is raising a $5M Seed from Abstract & Susa Ventures

Arfur Rock →

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